Kinda fascinating new paper on prime numbers: Prime numbers near to each other tend to avoid repeating their last digits, the mathematicians say: that is, a prime that ends in 1 is less likely to be followed by another ending in 1 than one might expect from a random sequence. “As soon as I saw the numbers, I could see it was true,” says mathematician James Maynard of the University of Oxford, UK. “It’s a really nice result.”
http://www.nature.com/news/peculiar-pattern-found-in-random-prime-numbers-1.19550 -- Owen
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